In May of 2017, my team and I at Wildbit started experimenting with a 32-hour, 4-day work week. Since then, we’ve extended the experiment indefinitely, and we’ve continued to see our productivity and quality of work improve along the way. That isn’t to say we haven’t...
Recently, Starbucks announced its investment in a new employee benefit: subsidized backup care. According to Starbucks’ VP of Benefits, backup care for children and adults was the “last piece of the puzzle” in providing holistic benefits to its workforce. Indeed, it...
How skills cultivated as a single mom translate to entrepreneurship. By Sara Millman (Co-founder, backHer) Do single moms have any competitive advantages when it comes to being startup founders? An affirmative answer to this question at first seemed a bit unrealistic...
Learn from their mistakes and successes to carve out your own definition of work/life balance. By Belle Beth Cooper (Co-founder, HelloCode & Content Writer, Ghost) This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. I love being an entrepreneur. It gives me the...
It might be time to rethink how strict your working hours are. By Sarah Landrum (Founder, Punched Clocks) It’s no surprise that employees today want flexible hours. What is surprising, though, is that so few employers offer a flexible work schedule. All the...
